Paul Trevor's photo of the TV screen with "mad eyes Thatcher" is the intellectual property of Paul Trevor.
In copyright law, a derivative work is an expressive creation that includes major copyright-protected elements of an original, previously created first work (the underlying work). The derivative work becomes a second, separate work independent in form from the first. The transformation, modification or adaptation of the work must be substantial and bear its author's personality sufficiently to be original and thus protected by copyright. Translations, cinematic adaptations and musical arrangements are common types of derivative works.
Most countries' legal systems seek to protect both original and derivative works. They grant authors the right to impede or otherwise control their integrity and the author's commercial interests. Derivative works and their authors benefit in turn from the full protection of copyright without prejudicing the rights of the original work's author.
For the LODE project of 1992, the use of newspaper pages was integral to the artwork, as was the information contained within the artwork, and also published in the LODE Artliner leaflets that were distributed free to the public audience.
For the Re:LODE project of 2017 the electric information environment itself becomes the frame for the 22 artworks (the LODE cargo of 22 crates + the Super8 to video material) that are conceptually "located" through an artistic process of documentation.
This blog, as well as the Re:LODE Cargo of Questions blog, and the Re:LODE Radio blog, reference pages and images accessible on the internet. Links are made available so that references can be examined, and questioned.
Re:LODE in 2017 necessarily works with hypertext in the creation of an artistic space that is, essentially, a matrix;
"a cultural, social, or political environment in which something develops."
For Re:LODE the Information Wrap and Hypertext is the new deal, and potentially transforms our relationship to work - artistic method becomes an everyday method for all kinds of explorations necessary in an electric communication environment.
Technologies of language and communication
The Hungarian philosopher J.C.Nyiri (Krystof Nyiri) has, since the late 1980's, according to Ferenc L Lendvai in "The Loneliness of the Philosopher" (Essays on Wittgenstein and Austrian Philosophy - In Honour of J.C.Nyiri, Edited by Tamas Demeter, Rodopi - Amsterdam - New York 2004) moved from considering tradition and conservatism in Wittgenstein's philosophy to more general enquiries, most notably in his "Tradition and Practical Knowledge", 1988.
Lendvai writes:
Also, the problem of tradition led Nyiri to questions arising around communities, and more specifically, national communities. This also signifies that the emphases had changed slightly in Nyiri's thought: ideology-critique, that had been already present in his interpretations, becomes dominant over the outlook inspired by the sociology of knowledge. Nyiri's "Collective Reason: Roots of a Sociological Theory of Knowledge" (1989) may perhaps be considered as the final synthesis of this strand of his interests.
From the late 1980's another shift of emphasis takes place in Nyiri's thought when he turns toward the problems pertaining to communications and the Internet. Of course, his earlier explorations in the philosophy of language, and especially Wittgenstein's 'language-game theory', can be seen as precursors of this shift, and also ensure continuity with Nyiri's previous interests. But the approach is radically new.This is why it is relevant to bring Nyiri's thought to the question of LODE methodologies, as he recognises the need to consider the matters so brilliantly addressed by McLuhan but in a philosophical, language-game context. In other words considering technology, or technologies on different levels and of different character, and then;
"focuses on the determining effects of historically consecutive technologies of communication (i.e. primary orality, writing, and early alphabetical writing, book printing and electronic communication): technologies of communication shape our thought directly, and does not determine merely indirectly."Postscript to the 4th edition: A filozófia rövid története (1995)
In Nyiri's two papers "Wittgenstein and the Problem of Machine Consciousness" and "Some Marxian Themes in the Age of Information" (both 1989), Lendvai identifies a very useful distinction in Nyiri's thought regarding Marxism and an approach in the application of the method of historical materialism that is not at the same time accepting the political consequences of the Marxist movement.
For Re:LODE this second paper is important because, as Lendvai point out, that Nyiri identifies:
certain utopian-eschatological features of Marx's theory supports some timely conclusions: namely, that the computer and the Internet provides at least the theoretical possibility of knowledge-based work devoid of alienation, and of the development of real communities - in ways that Marx suggested only vaguely."The Loneliness of the Philosopher" Essays on Wittgenstein and Austrian Philosophy - In Honour of J.C.Nyiri, Edited by Tamas Demeter, Rodopi - Amsterdam - New York (Page X 2004)
Update 2018
